Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

[Dementeleus]

Discuss.

[luna]

doesn't have the nightmarish atmosphere of inland empire, so all we're left with is an incoherent plot. the weirdness is rather boring to be honest, and the whole thing is downright stupid. but there are some scenes that are worth something (the pink room, wikipedia calls it). i'm sure followers of the tv series would understand it more. very disappointing from lynch.

 

D (30)

[The Stingray]

The horror movie version of Twin Peaks. A suburban inferno. Because of this it doesn't have the humor of the show, but it nails tone and atmosphere. I liked it quite a lot, even though it doesn't reach the same heights as some of the best episodes of the show. This in part has to do with Dale Cooper, who is a much more interesting character than Laura Palmer, being relegated to a very limited role.

 

Oh, and I can understand this movie being completely incomprehensible to those who haven't watched the show.

 

B+

 

I am the arm.

Edited September 19, 2014 by The Stingray

[Jake Gittes]

Certainly uneven, mostly in the opening third (why is David Bowie in this movie at all?), but when it hits, it hits hard. I found myself fighting back tears more than a few times during the film, and I have to say that in the final minutes, the tears won. Once the film abandons the FBI agents and switches its focus to Laura Palmer, it gradually becomes one of the most harrowing and empathetic portrayals of an abuse victim I've ever seen. Lynch's refusal to shy away from the horror only makes his humanism shine through more strongly, and Sheryl Lee gives a great and massively underrated performance.

 

doesn't have the nightmarish atmosphere of inland empire, so all we're left with is an incoherent plot. the weirdness is rather boring to be honest, and the whole thing is downright stupid. but there are some scenes that are worth something (the pink room, wikipedia calls it). i'm sure followers of the tv series would understand it more. very disappointing from lynch.

 

D (30)

 

With all due respect, I'll be blunt: if you hadn't seen at least half of the TV show before this movie, then you haven't seen this movie.

Edited October 22, 2014 by Jake Gittes

[Hatebox]

A wonderful (and massively underrated) horror movie. And yes, if you haven't seen the show then there's absolutely no point in watching it. 

[The Stingray]

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who was also in attendance, confessed in a 1992 interview, "After I saw Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at Cannes, David Lynch had disappeared so far up his own ass that I have no desire to see another David Lynch movie until I hear something different."

 

I guess QT never saw the show.

[Hatebox]

^ The irony of that QT quote is amusing. Swap his name with Lynch's and that's how I've felt about him for the last decade and a half.

[The Stingray]

^ The irony of that QT quote is amusing. Swap his name with Lynch's and that's how I've felt about him for the last decade and a half.

 

As much as I adore Tarantino, I sometimes feel the same way.

[Jake Gittes]

Yeah that was not one of QT's best moments.

[Dementeleus]

I'd never gotten around to seeing this, and now seemed the perfect time. And tbh, I think giving it the span of time to separate it from the early 90s fervor over TWIN PEAKS is a good thing. 

 

The first fifteen minutes or so might just be the greatest troll job by a director ever. 

 

After that, in places it's occasionally hamstrung by specific ties to the show (did Agent Cooper really need to be in this?), and also some of the shock is lost because we already know certain twists and reveals. But oh man, the mood and the sadness of this... really sensational stuff. Lynch can really direct the hell out of sequences. 

[Jake Gittes]

1 hour ago, Tele Came Back said:

and also some of the shock is lost because we already know certain twists and reveals. 

 

It says a lot about Sheryl Lee's performance that Laura's realization of who her tormentor is still rips your heart out.

 

Questions in a World of Blue is such a devastating scene too. That's when you know once and for all there's no going back.